"all international sales. With over 900 outlets in the country, it had three times as many as McDonald's, and about a third more than Starbucks. South Korea is home to Dunkin Donuts' only coffee roasting plant outside the U.S. Still, the company sees China and its vastly larger population as the more lucrative opportunity. In 2008, Dunkin' Donuts opened its first restaurant in Shanghai, representing the first step in its China expansion strategy. By March 2014, it had about 50 stores in the country and an agreement to open 100 more over the next five years. In Brazil, Dunkin' Donuts"
"on April 3, 2017, and Howard Schultz retired to become Chairman Emeritus effective June 26, 2018. In 2018, Starbucks expanded its partnership with Uber Eats to bring its beverages to US customers' doorsteps, as it had already done for some time in China. The first Starbucks opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 31, 1971, by three partners who met while they were students at the University of San Francisco: English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and writer Gordon Bowker were inspired to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment by coffee roasting entrepreneur Alfred Peet after he taught them"
"William Rosenberg William Rosenberg (June 10, 1916 – September 22, 2002) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Dunkin Donuts franchise in 1950 in Quincy, Massachusetts, one of the pioneers in name-brand franchising, originally named the ""Open Kettle"" doughnut shop when established in 1948. At the end of 2011, there were more than 10,000 outlets of the chain in 32 countries. Rosenberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts one of four children of Nathan Rosenberg, a grocery owner, and Phoebe Rosenberg née Swart, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Rosenberg grew up in Boston's working-class Dorchester section and was educated in public"
"for its coffee and doughnuts. In September 2015, Dunkin' Donuts, a doughnut and coffee shop chain, announced plans to move forward with a delivery program that includes delivery of coffee, doughnuts and other foods, to begin sometime in 2016. The delivery program is devised to use a mobile application for ordering products, and will be launched when the company updates its mobile application. The program was under consideration in June 2015. The ""New York Post"" reported that this was done in efforts to increase competition with Starbucks Coffee. Coffee and doughnuts provide caffeine, and large amounts of fat and sugar."
"Dukes, Starbucks' director of Espresso Americas, developers tested ten products with consumers, with the Pumpkin Spice Latte coming out in the middle of the group after chocolate and caramel flavors. Dukes said that ""developers realized there was something special around the pumpkin flavor, especially since there wasn't anything around pumpkin at the time"". The company experimented with different combinations and ratios of pumpkin to spice, ultimately deciding on a recipe with no pumpkin in it. In fall of 2003, the final recipe was tested in Vancouver and Washington, D.C. Sales of the drink exceeded the company's expectations: Dukes said ""we"
"Mister Donut In 1955, Harry Winokur worked with brother-in-law William Rosenberg, the founder of Dunkin' Donuts. After Winokur broke his partnership with Rosenberg, he went on to create Mister Donut with his son-in-law David Slater that same year, with stores in most of North America. The Mister Donut business became so popular that Winokur and Slater decided to go into franchising. As a result, Mister Donut began a rapid expansion that resulted in the opening of 275 stores in the U.S. and Canada. In 1970, Minneapolis-based International Multifoods Corporation, one of the world's largest and most successful food companies, acquired"
"Original Starbucks The Pike Place Starbucks store, commonly called the Original Starbucks, is the first Starbucks store, established in 1971 at Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The store has kept its early appearance over time and is subject to design guidelines due to its historic significance. The store is considered a tourist attraction and often hosts a crowd. While commonly referred to as the first Starbucks location, the current address is the second for the Pike Place store. The first Starbucks cafe was located at 2000 Western Avenue from 1971–1976. This cafe later moved to 1912"
"and namesake Tim Horton played professional hockey as a member of the Buffalo Sabres), made a major expansion into the United States in the early part of the 21st century, culminating in its corporate merger with established U.S. fast food chain Burger King. Established general fast food chains also began promoting their coffee products, including McDonald's, which introduced its McCafé line aimed at customers of coffee shops. In Canada, Dunkin' Donuts only has four retail locations, all in Greater Montreal. Coffee wars The coffee wars are various marketing moves by coffee shops to increase brand market share. In North America,"
"Starbucks Starbucks Corporation is an American coffee company and coffeehouse chain. Starbucks was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1971. As of 2018, the company operates 28,218 locations worldwide. Starbucks is considered the main representative of ""second wave coffee"", initially distinguishing itself from other coffee-serving venues in the US by taste, quality, and customer experience while popularizing darkly roasted coffee. Since the 2000s, third wave coffee makers have targeted quality-minded coffee drinkers with hand-made coffee based on lighter roasts, while Starbucks nowadays uses automated espresso machines for efficiency and safety reasons. Starbucks locations serve hot and cold drinks, whole-bean coffee, microground"
"Video of the week on the Food Consumer website. Starbucks Starbucks Corporation is an American coffee company and coffeehouse chain. Starbucks was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1971. As of 2018, the company operates 28,218 locations worldwide. Starbucks is considered the main representative of ""second wave coffee"", initially distinguishing itself from other coffee-serving venues in the US by taste, quality, and customer experience while popularizing darkly roasted coffee. Since the 2000s, third wave coffee makers have targeted quality-minded coffee drinkers with hand-made coffee based on lighter roasts, while Starbucks nowadays uses automated espresso machines for efficiency and safety reasons. Starbucks"
"Pike Place, its present location. Original Starbucks The Pike Place Starbucks store, commonly called the Original Starbucks, is the first Starbucks store, established in 1971 at Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The store has kept its early appearance over time and is subject to design guidelines due to its historic significance. The store is considered a tourist attraction and often hosts a crowd. While commonly referred to as the first Starbucks location, the current address is the second for the Pike Place store. The first Starbucks cafe was located at 2000 Western Avenue from 1971–1976. This"
"the background to portray an Italian experience. Two years later, the original Starbucks management decided to focus on Peet's Coffee & Tea and sold its Starbucks retail unit to Schultz and Il Giornale for US$3.8 million. Schultz renamed Il Giornale with the Starbucks name, and aggressively expanded its reach across the United States. Schultz's keen insight in real estate and his hard-line focus on growth drove him to expand the company rapidly. Schultz did not believe in franchising, and made a point of having Starbucks retain ownership of every domestic outlet. On 26 June 1992, Starbucks had its initial public"
"outlets and a vending operation. Noticing that forty percent of his revenues came from coffee and doughnuts, he started a retail shop that specialized in those products, opening his first coffee and doughnut shop, the ""Open Kettle"" on Memorial Day in 1948, later renamed ""Dunkin' Donuts"". Instead of the five different types of doughnuts doughnut shops traditionally offered, Rosenberg offered 52 different varieties. In 1955, upon opening his sixth shop, he decided on the concept of franchising his business as a means of distribution and expansion. In 1959, after the franchise idea had started to catch on, he lobbied at"
"whaling. The family is an inspiration for the ""Moby-Dick"" character Starbuck, who is the namesake of Starbucks Coffee. The home of Starbuck's paternal great-grandfather, Thomas Starbuck, is among those still standing in the Nantucket Historic District in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Darius is the fourth great-grandson of the Nantucket settler Tristram Coffin through his daughter Mary ""Coffin"" Starbuck (1645 - 1719). Tristram served as the first chief magistrate of Nantucket. Tristram Coffin's home, located in Newbury, Massachusetts, still stands and is a non-profit museum today. Starbuck's fifth cousin through Coffin was the renowned abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer Lucretia ""Coffin"""
"Dunkin Donuts Shares an American Journey"", written with the help of Jessica Brilliant Keener. On September 22, 2002, Rosenberg died at the age of 86 in his home in Mashpee, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod of bladder cancer. Rosenberg was married twice. In 1937, he married Bertha ""Bookie"" Greenberg and they had three children: Robert Rosenberg, Carol Rosenberg Silverstein, and Donald Rosenberg; they later divorced. In 1978, he married Ann Aluisy of Farmington, New Hampshire. William Rosenberg William Rosenberg (June 10, 1916 – September 22, 2002) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Dunkin Donuts franchise in 1950 in Quincy, Massachusetts,"
"the pon de angel, which is cream-filled, and the pon de kokuto, or a pon de ring with brown sugar. Mister Donut In 1955, Harry Winokur worked with brother-in-law William Rosenberg, the founder of Dunkin' Donuts. After Winokur broke his partnership with Rosenberg, he went on to create Mister Donut with his son-in-law David Slater that same year, with stores in most of North America. The Mister Donut business became so popular that Winokur and Slater decided to go into franchising. As a result, Mister Donut began a rapid expansion that resulted in the opening of 275 stores in the"
"products. For a time they offered bottled and canned Coca-Cola products, but switched back to bottled and canned Pepsi products in 2007. PepsiCo replaced the Coca-Cola products on United States restaurants in 2011, disappointing similar longtime PepsiCo rival Dunkin' Donuts. Dunkin' Donuts moved to Coca-Cola products only for United States restaurants in April 2012 because of this. Despite an expansion in their food offerings around 2009, the brand remained heavily dependent on coffee sales. In 2009, it was reported that 60% of their sales occur in the morning, and of that more than 50% is coffee. The coffee served is"
"his style of roasting beans. The company took the name of the chief mate in the book ""Moby-Dick"": Starbuck, after considering ""Cargo House"" and ""Pequod"". Bowker recalls that Terry Heckler, with whom Bowker owned an advertising agency, thought words beginning with ""st"" were powerful. The founders brainstormed a list of words beginning with ""st"". Someone pulled out an old mining map of the Cascade Range and saw a mining town named ""Starbo"", which immediately put Bowker in mind of the character ""Starbuck"". Bowker said, """"Moby-Dick"" didn't have anything to do with Starbucks directly; it was only coincidental that the sound"
"Duck Donuts Duck Donuts is an American doughnut company based in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Duck Donuts was founded in 2006 in Duck, North Carolina, by Russ DiGilio and Robin Griffith, and has since expanded to sixty-nine locations in the United States (as of July 2018). The chain's products include customizable, made-to-order doughnuts, other baked goods, and a range of beverages. Headquartered at 6230 Carlisle Pike in Hampden Township, near Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, Duck Donuts was founded in 2006 by Russell ""Russ"" DiGilio, who saw a need for ""warm, fresh, made-to-order doughnuts"", and Robin Griffith. Both natives of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, the duo"
"Dunn Brothers Coffee Dunn Brothers Coffee is a franchise company of coffeehouses founded in St. Paul, Minnesota, in December 1987 by brothers Ed and Dan Dunn. As of June 2006, Dunn Brothers Coffee was the ninth largest coffee company in the U.S., with 85 locations throughout the country. The first store was opened at 1569 Grand Avenue in St. Paul, after the Dunn brothers had driven an old Dodge van loaded with their belongings from Portland, Oregon, to Minnesota in search of a good, underserved location for a coffee business. They found a refurbished 1950s Probat roaster in Cincinnati, Ohio,"
"in Greenwich Village and elsewhere. The first Peet's Coffee & Tea store opened in 1966 in Berkeley, California by Dutch native Alfred Peet. He chose to focus on roasting batches with fresher, higher quality seeds than was the norm at the time. He was a trainer and supplier to the founders of Starbuck's. The American coffeehouse chain Starbucks, which began as a modest business roasting and selling coffee beans in 1971, was founded by three college students, Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker, and Zev Siegl. The first store opened on March 30, 1971 at the Pike Place Market in Seattle, followed"
"""National Donut Week"" articles in ""The New York Times"" that covered the 1939 World's Fair. In four articles beginning October 9, two mention the ""donut"" spelling. Dunkin' Donuts, which was so-named in 1950, following its 1948 founding under the name Open Kettle (Quincy, Massachusetts), is the oldest surviving company to use the ""donut"" variation; other chains, such as the defunct Mayflower Doughnut Corporation (1931), did not use that spelling. According to the Oxford Dictionary while ""doughnut"" is used internationally, the spelling ""donut"" is American. The spelling ""donut"" remained rare until the 1950s, and has since grown significantly in popularity; this"
"were made to date. As of 2018, Starbucks is ranked 132nd on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue. The first Starbucks location outside North America opened in Tokyo, Japan, in 1996. On December 4, 1997, the Philippines became the third market to open outside North America with its first branch in the country located at 6750 Ayala Building in Makati City, Philippines. Starbucks entered the U.K. market in 1998 with the $83 million USD acquisition of the then 56-outlet, UK-based Seattle Coffee Company, re-branding all the stores as Starbucks. In September 2002, Starbucks opened"
"coffee chain Starbucks, also based in Seattle. Tully's opened its first store in Kent, Washington in September 1992. The founder of Tully's Coffee, Tom ""Tully"" O'Keefe, who retired from the company in 2010, planned to rival the quickly expanding Starbucks coffee. Tully's quickly developed into a strong regional specialty-coffee retailer that was concentrated in Puget Sound, where coffee loyalty is so deep there is one coffee shop for every 4,000 people. In 2006, Tully's made its first net profit. Tully's focus was no longer on competing against Starbucks, but on serving hand-crafted coffee in its local Seattle area retail coffee"
"seemed to make sense."" The first Starbucks store was located in Seattle at 2000 Western Avenue from 1971–1976. This cafe was later moved to 1912 Pike Place; never to be relocated again. During this time, the company only sold roasted whole coffee beans and did not yet brew coffee to sell. The only brewed coffee served in the store were free samples. During their first year of operation, they purchased green coffee beans from Peet's, then began buying directly from growers. In 1984, the original owners of Starbucks, led by Jerry Baldwin, purchased Peet's. During the 1980s, total sales of"
"Many of the restaurants are located in proximity to freeway exits, bars, and in service areas. Denny's started franchising in 1963, and most Denny's restaurants are now franchisee-owned. Denny's was founded by Harold Butler and Richard Jezak, who opened Danny's Donuts in Lakewood, California in 1953. In 1956, a year after Jezak's departure from the then-6-store chain, Butler changed the concept, shifting it from a donut shop to a coffee shop with store #8. Danny's Donuts was renamed Danny's Coffee Shops and changed its operation to 24 hours. In 1959, to avoid confusion with Los Angeles restaurant chain Coffee Dan's,"
"the trademark rights for Mister Donut in the United Kingdom, and afterwards opened a Mister Donut pilot store and bakery in Fulham, London. On May 2, 1988, the Mister Donut franchise sold the trademark rights for the European market at large. By the 1980s, Mister Donut had over 550 stores in the United States and Canada. In 1989, the English corporate giant Allied-Lyons plc acquired Dunkin' Donuts from Rosenberg for a reported £196 million. After becoming a subsidiary of Allied-Lyons, Dunkin' Donuts immediately acquired Mister Donut from International Multifoods. Mister Donut stores were offered the option convert to Dunkin' Donuts."
"their technology team. In April 2017, Schultz became executive chairman of Starbucks with Johnson becoming President and CEO. Starbucks maintains control of production processes by communicating with farmers to secure beans, roasting its own beans, and managing distribution to all retail locations. Additionally, Starbucks' Coffee and Farmer Equity Practices require suppliers to inform Starbucks what portion of wholesale prices paid reaches farmers. In 1994, Starbucks bought The Coffee Connection, gaining the rights to use, make, market, and sell the ""Frappuccino"" beverage. The beverage was introduced under the Starbucks name in 1995 and as of 2012, Starbucks had annual Frappuccinos sales"
"a similar green circle and block lettering. Like Starbucks, the Stars and Bucks serves cappuccinos in ceramic cups, and offers free Wifi. According to speculation cited in the ""Seattle Post Intelligencer"", the cafe's name and imitation Starbucks style may be a political satire of American consumerism. Starbucks is not known to have taken action against this business. In 2014, Nathan Fielder, a Canadian comedian behind the hit show ""Nathan for You"", opened a store called ""Dumb Starbucks Coffee"" in Los Feliz, Los Angeles CA. The store resembled a typical Starbucks with one exception: everything was preceded by the word ""dumb."""
"by a second and third over the next two years. Entrepreneur Howard Schultz joined the company in 1982 as Director of Retail Operations and Marketing, and pushed to sell premade espresso coffee. The others were reluctant, but Schultz opened Il Giornale in Seattle in April 1986. He bought the other owners out in March 1987 and pushed on with plans to expand—from 1987 to the end of 1991, the chain (rebranded from Il Giornale to Starbucks) expanded to over 100 outlets. The company has 25,000 stores in over 75 countries worldwide. South Korea experienced almost 900 percent growth in the"
"good real estate and a crushing debt load. After prepping the company for a sale and watching the deal fall through, Donald filed for a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy that allowed him to slough off debt and reemerge with a public company. Donald joined Starbucks, the world’s largest specialty coffee retailer, in 2002 as president of the North American division, where he managed operations for all Starbucks stores in the U.S. and Canada. He became president and chief executive officer of the entire Starbucks Corporation before being asked to step down in 2008. During his tenure, Starbucks enjoyed record growth,"
"coffee in the US were falling, but sales of specialty coffee increased, forming 10% of the market in 1989, compared with 3% in 1983. By 1986, the company operated six stores in Seattle and had only just begun to sell espresso coffee. In 1987, the original owners sold the Starbucks chain to former manager Howard Schultz, who rebranded his Il Giornale coffee outlets as Starbucks and quickly began to expand. In the same year, Starbucks opened its first locations outside Seattle at Waterfront Station in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Chicago, Illinois. By 1989, 46 stores existed across the Northwest and"
"2013, Starbucks began to post calorie counts on menus for drinks and pastries in all of their U.S. stores. In 2014, Starbucks began producing their own line of ""handcrafted"" sodas, dubbed ""Fizzio"". In 2015, Starbucks began serving coconut milk as an alternative to dairy and soy. In March 2017, Starbucks announced to launch limited-edition of two new specialty drinks made from beans aged in whiskey barrels at its Seattle roastery. Starbucks' barrel-aged coffee will be sold with a small batch of unroasted Starbucks Reserve Sulawesi beans, which are then hand-scooped into whiskey barrels from Washington D.C. Starbucks entered the tea"